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perețe

wall /peˈrete/

noun#3183 most common

Also: partition, wall (of an organ or vessel)

Example sentences

Pe perete este un tablou.
There is a painting on the wall.
Am pus un ceas pe perete.
I put a clock on the wall.
Trebuie să vopsim pereții din bucătărie.
We need to paint the kitchen walls.
Peretele acesta despărțitor separă camera de living.
This partition wall separates the room from the living room.
Umiditatea a lăsat pete pe peretele dinspre curte.
Damp left stains on the wall facing the courtyard.
Arhitectul a propus dărâmarea peretelui portant, ceea ce ar fi compromis structura clădirii.
The architect proposed tearing down the load-bearing wall, which would have compromised the building's structure.

Declension

CaseSingularPlural
Nominativeperetelepereții
Genitivepereteluipereților
Accusativeperetelepereții
Vocativeperetepereților

Word family

peretewall (indefinite singular)
perețiwalls (indefinite plural)
păretardecorative cloth traditionally hung on a wall
perete despărțitorpartition wall
perete portantload-bearing wall

Etymology

Perete descends from Latin paries, parietem, meaning wall. The word passed into Romanian through ordinary spoken use, unlike many later borrowings, so it counts among the language's core inherited vocabulary. Older Romanian texts also show the variant părete, and regional or archaic spellings such as perețe turn up in older printings.

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